It was an interesting morning for both sides, as Edmonton center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was declared unable to play because of shoulder soreness and Alex Goligoski was skated long after the regulars left and then declared a healthy scratch by Stars coach Glen Gulutzan. This is the first healthy scratch for Goligoski, who leads the Stars in average time on ice at 22:14.

The Stars lines should look like this:

Brenden Morrow-Jamie Benn-Jaromir Jagr

Loui Eriksson-Derek Roy-Michael Ryder

Reilly Smith-Cody Eakin-Tomas Vincour

Eric Nystrom-Vern Fiddler-Antoine Roussel

Brenden Dillon-Stephane Robidas

Aaron Rome-Trevor Daley

Jamie Oleksiak-Philip Larsen

Kari Lehtonen.

The Oilers lines should look like this:

Taylor Hall-Mark Arcobello-Jordan Eberle

Ales Hemsky-Sam Gagner-Nail Yakupov

Darcy Hordichuk-Ryan Smyth-Lennart Petrell

Teemu Hartikainen-Anton Lander-Magnus Paajarvi

Ladislav Smid-Jeff Petry

Nick Schultz-Justin Schultz

Ryan Witney-Corey Potter

Devan Dubnyk

Both teams are trending young right now, and both teams had plenty of players in the AHL during the lockout. Among the Oilers that played for Oklahoma City were: Eberle, Hall, J. Schultz, Hartikianen, Paajarvi, Landon and Arcobello. Among the Stars players that were with Texas were: Eakin, Dillon, Oleksiak, Smith, Vincour and Roussel.

Oklahoma City won five of the seven meetings between the two rivals.

Roussel ruffled the feathers of Hall on a few occasions and the two fought on Dec. 22. It was the only fight of the season for Hall and one of seven for Roussel.

Oleksiak said that while the two teams did have some intense game, he said that Roussel’s ability to anger goes much further than just the Oklahoma City Barons.

“Yeah, they were mad at Rous, but everyone is mad at Rous,” Oleksiak said. “Every team we played wanted to go after Rous.”

Still, the ability to look across the ice in an NHL game and see that many familiar faces will be calming.

“I think it will,” said Oilers defenseman Justin Schultz. “You know who you’re playing against and you know a little of what to expect. There’s a lot more out there in an NHL game, but it helps a little.”